Heart biomechanics play a crucial role in the diagnosis and prognosis of cardiac diseases. However, current gold standard methods are highly invasive and preclude continuous monitoring of patients’ myocardium stiffness as a biomarker. In this study, we report the first results of a novel magnetic resonance elastography technique that provides with high temporal and spatial resolution enabling accurate transient shear wave speed values quantification, as thereof travel through heart tissue. Although biased due to the thin-plate geometry of the heart, early and mid-late systole, and early diastole preliminary results intuitively match the expected dynamical biomechanics of the human heart.
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